{"id":8518,"date":"2019-12-06T18:37:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T23:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/?p=8518"},"modified":"2021-07-14T14:19:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T18:19:28","slug":"cuccap-researchers-provide-information-about-susceptibility-of-commercial-watermelon-varieties-to-powdery-mildew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/2019\/12\/06\/cuccap-researchers-provide-information-about-susceptibility-of-commercial-watermelon-varieties-to-powdery-mildew\/","title":{"rendered":"CucCAP researchers provide information about susceptibility of commercial watermelon varieties to powdery mildew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/11\/watermelon-small-logo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9889\" src=\"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/11\/watermelon-small-logo.jpg\" alt=\"watermelon graphic\" width=\"100\" height=\"93\" \/><\/a>The occurrence of powdery mildew of watermelon has significantly increased in recent years.\u00a0While the\u00a0majority of the watermelon varieties evaluated in South Carolina were susceptible to powdery mildew, the\u00a0seedless variety Suprema and seeded variety Declaration were relatively less susceptible\u00a0and the commercial pollenizers Lion, SP5 and SP6 were resistant\u00a0across three years of testing. Because of the frequent occurrence of powdery mildew of watermelon in recent years newer resistant cultivars and fungicide sprays will be needed to manage the disease.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S026121941930256X?via%3Dihub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Relative susceptibility of commercial watermelon varieties to powdery mildew<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby: Chandrasekar S. Kousik, Jennifer L. Ikerd, &amp; Mihir Mandal<br \/>\nPublished August 3, 2019.<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cropro.2019.104910\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10.1016\/j.cropro.2019.104910<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0seedless watermelon variety Suprema and seeded variety Declaration were relatively less susceptible\u00a0to powdery mildew. The commercial pollenizers Lion, SP5 and SP6 were resistant\u00a0across three years of testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267,419],"tags":[461],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8518"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8518"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10802,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8518\/revisions\/10802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}